The questions raised by Lenin are very realistic. Yes, Li Xiaofeng did make a hole in the economic blockade of the Allies, but this hole is too small and can only be considered a gap at most. It is simply unrealistic to rely on this gap to solve Russia's increasingly severe food crisis.

What the mentor wants is not just a little bit. What he wants more is to break through the blockade in essence, which is very similar to Stalin's previous ideas. However, what he is different from Stalin is that he does not think that just by luring it for profit, he can inspire the bourgeoisie of the Allies to break through the blockade.

So, he wanted to hear if Trotsky could solve this problem. If Lao Trotsky only satisfies the status quo and makes a little fuss, he would be very disappointed.

However, Lenin was soon disappointed. Trotsky did not have a way to solve this problem. At most, he wanted to do was to expand the gap slightly and get a little more food. As for a comprehensive breakthrough in the blockade, he really couldn't do it. Not only could he not do it, but in fact, Trotsky was not very interested in a comprehensive breakthrough in the blockade, or according to Lao Tau's revolutionary proposition, he believed that there was no need for this.

Why? Let him continue: "A comprehensive breakthrough of the Allied Group blockade is not our top priority, and it is not very important. What is the most important significance of our revolution? That is, it created the world's first socialist regime. In the context of the world war, the Russian revolution is a spark, which will sound the death knell of the old system and the old society... With the initial victory of our country's revolution, it can be imagined that the flame of revolution will quickly burn in the world. Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Britain, and Europe will soon undergo earth-shaking changes... With the arrival of the new era, whether it is the Allied or the Allied Powers, it will become history. I can assert that when the new world comes, all blockades will no longer exist... So, there is no need for us to focus most of our energy on breaking through the blockade. What we need to do is deepen and expand the revolution..."

It should be said that Trotsky's speech did not have much new meaning, and it was still an extension of his continuous revolutionary theory. To put it bluntly, he had no interest in breaking through the blockade. He felt that it was a waste of the foundation and a truly wise chess player should not deal with it with moves, and that would only be fooled by his opponents.

For example, now, if the focus of work is on breaking through the Allies blockade, it is to take a chess move, and what will the wise chess player do? That is to export revolution to the outside world. As long as the red flag of revolution is subverted, the blockade will naturally be destroyed without any attack.

Is Trotsky's opinion correct? It's right or wrong, and it's really wrong. Why? Because this is nonsense. To break the enemy's blockade and destroy the enemy can naturally achieve the goal. The question is. Can Russia do this with its current strength?

Trotsky believed that it could be done. He believed that as long as the proletariat in the world was launched and the revolutionary struggle in Russia could be achieved, the goal could naturally be achieved. However, Lenin did not think that things were so simple. As Russia, which had the best objective conditions for revolution and the weakest reactionary power among the great powers, had repeated many times in the October Revolution. Needless to say, the struggle outside the party was facing the danger of division more than once, and almost had the entire army several times. Is this easy?

This is still Russia. Think about the other countries, such as Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Britain, and France, because of their more developed industries, the power of the working class is stronger, and it seems that the revolutionary foundation is better there. But the problem is that we cannot just look at the power of the working class, you also have to look at the power of the bourgeoisie, right?

It is obvious that the bourgeoisie in these countries has stronger control and firmly controls the state machine. It is not easy to revolt. This can also be seen from the historical process. Russia, which was the most traumatized by the First World War and the weakest bourgeois power, collapsed first. In the second half of 1918, Germany and Austria, which were at a loss in Yalishan, collapsed immediately. Although the old bourgeois country Britain and France also broke out in the workers' movement, it was quickly suppressed.

Like Trotsky, it is very opportunistic to place all hopes of promoting the workers' movement and launching the proletarian revolution on the chain reaction formed by the self-destruction of the capitalist powers.

Of course, this chain reaction did show signs of formation, but as the revolutionary struggle of the German proletariat was ruthlessly suppressed, the chain reaction quickly disappeared. Instead, it was replaced by the ruthless blockade of the Soviet Union by capitalist countries in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Trotsky's theory of continuous revolution also went bankrupt with the failure of the German revolution. In the 1920s, the big reason why his struggle with Stalin failed was that his revolutionary theory was proved to be ineffective. The collapse of the theoretical foundation eventually made Trotsky lose power. The group of people who were originally good at relationships with him and had similar views changed their flags and turned to support Stalin. As one of them grew and the other became increasingly weak, his failure was inevitable.

Lenin is a little more realistic than Trotsky. Of course, this does not mean that the mentor does not support the export of revolution. In terms of exporting revolution, Lenin and Trotsky have basically the same views. The purpose of the two fighting for it is to build a world of great harmony with the proletariat. If they do not export revolution, how can they achieve their goal?

The difference between Master Tutor and Trotsky is his attitude towards the German revolution. Trotsky put all his hopes on the German revolution. Although Master Tutor also hopes for the success of the German revolution, he did not suppress all his bets. He paid more attention to Russia and believed that Russia is the foundation of the revolution. Even if the German revolution was not successful, as long as it could preserve the Russian model, the future would be long.

To give an indefinite example, Trotsky is a gambling guy who is so obsessed with gambling. In a game, he bets all the bets in one hand and prepares for studs. Lenin is more pragmatic. He did not intend to decide the winner in one hand, but chose to extend the gambling game and fight a protracted battle.

Of course, this does not mean that Lenin is more clever than Trotsky. In fact, Lenin's strategy is also very dangerous. The Russian revolution is very fragile. If it does not cause a chain reaction, then it can only fight alone. With the strength of Russia at that time, it was facing the encirclement of several strongest gangsters in the world. I am afraid that the ending will not be optimistic, right?

The Russian Revolution in history was indeed quite dangerous. If it weren't for the exhaustion of several rogue countries in one battle and would have been unable to find Russia's trouble, the result would be really hard to say.

Back to the real question, should we make every effort to break through the economic blockade? Trotsky believes that it is not necessary. Lenin believes that it is necessary, which is the different ideas adopted by the two regarding different estimates of the future of the revolution. Trotsky is more radical and Lenin is more conservative.

But whether radical or conservative, the fundamental purpose of these two people is still the same, and there is no need to completely oppose the two like Stalin. The iron comrade demoted Trotsky, which was just a political need.

If Li Xiaofeng was on the scene, he would probably say that whether it was Trotsky or the mentor, you are too optimistic, right? One YY wins the German Revolution and the other YY can break through the blockade of the Allies. Your uncle, neither of these two are realistic!

Indeed, with the initial victory of the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks were optimistic about the future. Those who were excited like Trotsky were no longer able to find the north. Even if they were more realistic, they were like those of the mentor. They were not spared.

But the reality is cruel. Hopefully the victory of the German revolution cannot quench the near thirst. YY is a little bit of a matter of taking it for granted to break the blockade. Look at the Germans, the high seas fleet is strong enough, right? Isn’t it blocked the family and wait for death. The situation in Russia is even worse. What to talk about breaking through the blockade? It would be nice to be able to dig two dog holes and secretly get some food to relieve hunger.

Therefore, when Trotsky exposed his original intention, the mentor was disappointed. He did not intend to be too radical for the time being. He felt that he should base himself on Russia, first solve the Russian problem, and then talk about revolutionary exports. To solve Russia's problem, a very important point is to solve the food problem. Although he did not think that Stalin's strategy of breaking through the blockade could be successful by disintegrating the Allies and thus breaking the blockade. In essence, he still hoped to break the blockade as soon as possible.

"It's too early to talk about foreign issues now!" Lenin said carefully.

There is no way, the theory of continuous revolution is still very popular at this time, and the comrades all have great hopes for this, and even Lenin also agrees with it. If he directly denies Trotsky's suggestion, it will probably cause a bloody storm.

At this time, Lenin did not want to lose his own position, so he could only save the country in a curve: "If we want to drive the world revolution through our country's revolution, then the first thing is to ensure that our country's revolution achieves complete victory. Obviously, although we have achieved initial victory, we are still far from complete victory... Especially now, the domestic economic situation is not optimistic, and various counter-revolutionary forces have not been completely eliminated. Foreign imperialism has also destroyed me and I am always thinking about subverting our people's regime... In this case, we should first consolidate the results of the revolution!"

Although Lenin did not deny Trotsky positively, his meaning was similar. Anyway, Lao Tuo's face was not very good at all. But even if he was a little unhappy, he would not dare to say that Lenin's words had no reason. Who dares to say that it is not important to consolidate the fruits of the Russian Revolution? Moreover, it can be seen from the expressions of the members of the Politburo present that everyone still agrees with Lenin's opinion.

But Trotsky could not allow everyone to be taken away by Lenin. He quickly said: "There is more than one way to defend the fruits of our revolution, and we can do our work longer..."

I have to say that when the meeting was held, it was a bit off topic, from the initially debated issue of food to the issue of revolution. Sverdlov felt that discussing this issue temporarily seemed to be a waste of time. After all, the German revolution has not yet broken out, so why do you do that far?

Xiao Si interrupted: "The Central Committee has already made a resolution on the issue of the German Revolution, and there is no need to discuss this issue for the time being. The focus of our meeting is how to solve the food problem. Let's go back to the problem itself!"

However, Stalin did not agree with Sverdlov's opinion. He immediately said: "If we want to solve the food problem, there is only one possibility for the time being, that is, importing food from abroad to alleviate the crisis. If the imperialist blockade is not completely broken, how can we import food?"

Sverdlov glanced at him and said lightly: "Did Comrade Andre completely break the imperialist blockade?"

Stalin was stunned at first, and then said angrily: "That doesn't mean anything. What is that little bit of food enough? Comrade Andre's efforts prove that if we do not completely break through the blockade, we will not be able to obtain more food!"

Sverdlov asked slowly: "I think this statement is inaccurate. Comrade Andre's previous efforts were just a small-scale attempt, which verified that there is also the possibility of purchasing food if the blockade is not completely broken. Although there is still very little food this time, it cannot be said that it will always be so small in the future!"

Stalin was stunned again. When Li Xiaofeng proposed a plan to import food through the foreign bourgeoisie, he discussed this issue with Migoyang. According to Migoyang's analysis, someone's idea was to use the nature of the bourgeoisie's profit-seeking nature to completely break through the blockade.

So, when he first spoke, Stalin followed this idea. But now Sverdlov's statement obviously did not mean this. Xiao S seemed to have no idea of ​​completely breaking the blockade. His idea was closer to taking advantage of a loophole, just to continue to use the gap to survive.

What's going on? Stalin couldn't figure it out for a moment. He himself, whether it was Lenin or Trotsky, or Derrynsky, probably thought that the gap created by someone was not enough to solve the food crisis, and believed that the gap was too small. Therefore, their debate escalated and off topic.

Sverdlov obviously said that the existing gap is big enough to not have to talk about so many messes. How could he, who has always been smart, make such an obvious mistake?

However, Stalin quickly gave up on the question of how Xiao Si made a low-level mistake. He felt that this was an opportunity, a good opportunity to prove that he was better than Sverdlov in front of his mentor.

Immediately, he seized the mistake and made a big fuss: "Comrade Yakov, how could you make such a mistake? Comrade Andre's experiment is indeed meaningful, but it can only prove that we can break through the enemy's blockade, but such a narrow path. How can we ensure the solution of the food crisis? Only by broadening this path, only by striking iron by heat and breaking the shackles that are stuck on our shoulders can we truly solve the food problem."

After saying that, Stalin looked at the tutor like a pug. He couldn't wait to hear Lenin's praise. But would Lenin praise him? No, at least not verbally for the time being.

Of course, this is not because Stalin was wrong, nor because his opinions were not recognized by his mentor. In fact, as mentioned earlier, the mentor recognized Stalin's opinions and wanted to break the blockade first, but he had differences with Stalin on specific methods.

Why didn’t the tutor express his affirmation of Stalin? Is it just to take care of Sverdlov’s face?

It is certainly not. The main reason is that Lenin saw that Sverdlov seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Stalin's accusations and criticisms. It seemed that he had thought about this problem a long time ago and had a solution to the problem.

Suddenly, Lenin became surprised. Could it be that the trade channel that Li Xiaofeng had tinkering with was not a small gap? Could it be that this channel was wider than he thought?

To be honest, Lenin didn't believe this possibility at all. In fact, Sverdlov didn't believe this possibility before. At the earliest, when Li Xiaofeng was going to do this, he first found Xiao Si to discuss it. He must first discuss such a major matter with Tie Gemo. After all, Sverdlov's political wisdom and political vision are a little higher than that of a certain immortal. With him picking up the gaps, he can avoid many problems.

At that time, Sverdlov also thought that the gap was too small and that a complete breakthrough of the blockade must be broken. But how could Li Xiaofeng agree? Because there was no way to break the blockade. Now that the gap is opened, it is completely a certain immortal who uses the express delivery function of the treasure pot to cheat. He asked him to find a way to put pressure on their governments from the United Nations to lift the blockade of Russia. Isn’t this a sleep talk?

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng does not have this ability, and he will not do it even if he has it, because this blockade line is beneficial to him. Without this blockade line, if there is free trade, how can he and his friends do monopoly business and what money can they make?

So at that time, Li Xiaofeng vowed to Sverdlov that this time it was just a verification, just an announcement to the central government that he had the ability to transport food safely from abroad. As for the amount, there was no need to worry at all. As long as the central government had money and as long as the central government could guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of his friends, there was no need to worry at all about the amount of food.

Sverdlov didn't believe it at the time, but when a fairy lay in the hospital and told him that the first batch of food had been shipped and was about to arrive in Russia, and the number was not 5,000 tons, but 50,000 tons, he was stunned. Only then did he realize that someone's promise was indeed not a joke.

So, when Stalin accused him, when Lenin showed a puzzled look at him, Xiao Si felt a little relieved. Faced with everyone's doubts, Xiao Si slowly told the truth: "Comrade Andrei had discussed this issue with him before he was injured. At that time, he told me that the first batch of 5,000 tons of wheat was just the beginning. In fact, the first batch of grain transported was as high as 50,000 tons. The five thousand tons of wheat were just a test of the Nobel family, the Popov family and the French princess. Once the transaction was successfully completed, the subsequent grain would be continuously transported to the Petrograd strategic reserve warehouse..."
Chapter completed!